7 top jewellery and diamond heist of the world

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7 Top Jewellery And Diamond Heist Of The World
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Jewellery is my favourite subject. I thought to
write something different today and found this
subject. I have to admit, when I go through
these details it became more and more
interesting. Here is top 7 jewellery and diamond
robberies in terms of money as of my knowledge.
It is highly possible that I could have missed
any big. If you know any such please mention in
comments. But I promise these are not less
thriller.
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The Carlton Cannes Hotel (approx. 136 million)
28th July 2013
The brazen theft occurred about 1130 am Sunday
at The Carlton Intercontinental hotel, French
Riviera. The Carlton hotel dominates the
exclusive Promenade de la Croisetta that
stretches a mile and a half along the French
Riviera. There was an exhibition of jewellery by
the prestigious Leviev diamond house which is
owned by London based Russian Israeli billionaire
Lev Leviev. The exhibition scheduled to run until
end of August. On 28th July, Sunday morning, two
suspect, wearing a scarf and a hat, entered
through a glass door off of Cannas main street
pulled a semi-automatic pistol, grabbed the bag
of jewellery (containing 72 jewels, 34 of which
described as exceptional) and jumped through
another glass door that led to the Rue Einsy. The
investigation is going on for the biggest
jewellery heist of the world with esteemed value
of the theft is 136 million and no suspect has
been charged yet. On a lighter note, it is the
same hotel that Alfred Hitchcock shot much of the
classic 1955 romance-thriller To catch a Thief.
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Amsterdam Million-Dollar Airport Heist (Esteemed
value 118 million)
25th February 2005
Two men dressed as KLM workers entered the cargo
terminal of the airport in a stolen KLM car. The
Men intercepted the truck carrying diamonds which
were on route to a Tulip air plane bound for
Antwerp. They were armed with pistols and force
drivers to leave the truck and laid down before
casually drive away with the valuable. It was
well planned robbery as culprits were able to
gain access to a secured freight area. The truck
later found at a short distance from the airport.
Nothing has been recovered yet.
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Antwerp Diamond centre, Belgium (esteemed value
100 million)
15-16th February 2013
Antwerp Diamond heist, dubbed heist of the
century. It was largest when it happened.
Antwerp Diamond centre is located at the gem
district of Belgium. This robbery is no less
than what we see in the movies. The diamonds
were located two floors below the diamond centre
protected by multiple security mechanisms like a
lock with 100 million possible combinations,
infrared heat detectors, a seismic sensor,
Doppler radar and a magnetic field. According to
speculations, the leader of the robbers was
Leonardo Notarbartolo who has rented space in
diamond centre. He was arrested after sufficient
evidence and sentenced for 10 years in prison,
but has since been released on parole. The
diamonds remained uncovered till date.
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Harry Winston store in Paris, France (esteemed
value 100 million)
9th December 2008
Harry Winston is top jewellery store in Paris.
On the day, four men, some wearing wigs and
female clothing, produced handguns from their
pockets. They cornered all the employees and
customers, some of them reported of to have been
assaulted. They stole almost every jewellery
piece on display and also stole two backdoor
storage cases as well. This robbery also became
mystery as nothing has been recovered yet.
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Graff diamond robbery (esteemed value 65 million)
6th August 2009
Graff Diamonds is located at New Bond Street,
London. Two men entered as customers and
executed one of biggest jewellery robbery of UK.
They stole 43 pieces of jewellery including
rings, bracelets, necklaces and wrist-watches.
Only one necklace among them has value of 3.5
million as reported. The robbers have used
professional make-up artist to alter their look.
They have used wigs, their skin tones and their
features using latex prosthetics. The
interesting thing is, total of 10 male suspects
has been arrested, remanded and charged for
conspiracy, robbery, attempted murder etc. but
none of the stolen jewellery recovered. It also
became mystery as others.
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The Carlton Cannes Hotel (esteemed value 60
million)
11th August 1994
Yes this is the same place as the first one I
have listed. Three men entered the jewellery
store in the hotel with brandishing automatic
weapons and executed the robbery of jewellery and
precious stones valued around 60 million. The
thieves have not been arrested yet and nothing
has been recovered yet.
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Brussels Airport diamond heist (esteemed value
50 million)
18th February 2013
Brussels is the capital of Belgium, one of
largest market of diamonds. The gems were being
transferred from Brinks armored van, which had
driven from Antwerp on Fokker 100 twin engine jet
Swiss flight LX789, which was bound for Zurich.
The robbers were hid in a construction site
outside the airport. They were armed with
Kalashnikov type assault rifles, dressed up in
police. They have a Mercedes van and an Audi,
both with flashing blue police lights. They
drove straight to airplane, stopped it,
brandished their guns to stop pilots and
transport security and loaded 130 bags into their
car and drove off. The car later found burned.
The whole drama took only 20 minutes. Several
arrests were made later but nothing has recovered
yet.
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